410 ISTMPHALIDiE. 



A $ specimen in the collection of the Hon. P. M. Mackwood 

 has the ground-colour on the upperside of a most lovely lavender. 



Larva. " Pale yellow, reddish-brown beneath ; segments brown- 

 streaked ; spiracles black ; head spinous, armed with two long, 

 curved, thick spinous processes ; segments armed with two lateral 

 and two dorsal rows of long slightly-branched spines, the dorsal 

 and upper lateral row rising from a red round tumid spot." 

 {Moore.) 



Pupa. " Pale reddish-brown, truncated at both ends ; head- 

 piece short and thick, with two short points ; thorax conically 

 pointed at top ; anterior abdominal segments subdorsally produced 

 on each side into a broad alary expanded appendage, which is 

 pointed hindwarcl into a short process ; middle segments with a 

 subdorsal tubercle, the two anal segments with longer basally- 

 thickened processes." (Moore.) 



Race saloma, Swinhoe. — d very similar to the typical form on 

 both the upper and under sides, but on the upperside the basal 

 area up to the discal band on both fore and hind wings is very 

 much darker, suffused with brown, as is also the terminal margin, 

 very broadly, of the hind wing, and, more narrowly, of the fore 

 wing ; the markings are black and identical. On the underside 

 the ground-colour is more uniform, the contrast between the 

 basal area and the terminal half of the wings not so marked. In 

 race saloma the basal area is not so strongly suffused with cinnabar- 

 red. — 2 • Upperside differs from that of asela in the very dark 

 olivaceous brown of the ground-colour, with no trace of blue, and 

 in the more heavily denned black markings, which are otherwise 

 similar to those in asela ; the discal band stops short, as in that 

 form, at vein 2 of the hind wing, and the terminal margin is 

 suffused with ochraceous, only of a darker shade. Underside 

 similar, but the ground-colour slightly darker. 



Exp. <5 2 100-122 mm. (3-95-4*8"). 



Bab. S. India, Canara, the Nilgiris, the Wynaad aud Travan- 

 core. 



" Larva. Cylindrical, head armed with two large curved spiny 

 horns, the body with six rows of well-branched spines ; colour pale 

 yellow, lightly marbled with dark brown ; head black with an 

 inverted V of yellow ; underparts black. Pupa very grotesque ; 

 two extraordinary expansions like bats' wings springing from 

 the basal abdominal segment, a smaller pair on the penultimate 

 segment, and a large angular dorsal prominence above the head ; 

 colour light or dark brown, with two rows of subdorsal silver spots 

 on the thorax and three pairs of green spots on the abdominal 



segments The larva is a night-feeder, retiring to some 



distance, often to another plant, during the day." (Davidson 6f 

 AitJcen.) 



Food-plant said to be the wild passion-flower (Modecca palmata). 



